International Photographers Association of Los Angeles 洛杉磯國際攝影家協會

谢谢陈铭堂老师，帮我们请到了Jim Fitzgerald来沙龙讲座。Jim是大幅摄影界名人。。他醉心于碳素印刷。他觉得只有碳素才能充分表现足够丰富的黑白层次。和我们这些经常争论佳能好还是尼康好的摄影爱好者来说，他更像上一位百年前的人物。他的相机，印刷工具都是自己造的。

这里是他和他的相机。。





Jim Fitzgerald is an artist who draws his inspirations from the masters, past and present. Master photographers and printers Ansel Adams, Edward and Brett Weston, Per Volquartz, Gordon Chapple, Vaughn Hutchins, Sandy King, Bruce Barnbaum and Michael Smith and Paula Chamlee, have influenced Jim’s personal and unique style.

Jim currently resides in Ventura, California. A California native, Jim began his photographic career 30 years ago. A self-taught photographer and camera builder, Jim’s first visions were color 35mm images of the world, people and landscapes around him. In 2000, Jim began using large format cameras and developing and printing his own black and white photographs. “I needed total control over the process to complete my vision.” Workshops, conducted in the field and the darkroom by respected photographers by Per Volquartz and Vaughn Hutchins, have inspired Jim to create some of his best work. His images are in private collections, and Jim was one of the artists selected to show at the prestigious Yosemite Renaissance XXIV in 2008.

The tools of choice for Jim are his 1904 Seneca 8x10 camera and hand-crafted Walnut 11x14 and 8x20 cameras.

A traditional photographer Jim specializes in Carbon Transfer and Silver Chloride contact prints. Carbon Transfer, a process from the 1860’s, is a highly labor intensive process that yields prints of the finest quality. The photographer has total control of the image tonality due to the blending of pigments and manufacturing of transfer tissue unique to the artists’ vision. Carbon prints require 3 days of work to produce one finished print. Currently there are about 150 actively practicing carbon printers in the world.

Jim’s fine art prints are hand printed on the finest materials available; Kodak Azo Silver Chloride contact paper is used for most of Jim’s contact prints. His Carbon Transfer images are printed on the finest fiber papers, as are their final supports. Silver images are fixed twice, selenium-toned to archival standards, and both his silver and carbon prints are mounted on Alpha Rag museum quality boards.

Here is some of the works by Jim.







我有幸和他聊过几句。我发现他是个真正热爱着摄影本体的一个人。他搞摄影，不是期盼它能给他带来什么荣誉，名利。而是完全满足于自己创造的黑白影像世界。他最近花了几年时间去优胜美地拍并不起眼的黑橡树。在如今这个浮华世界，能这样不顾外界纷扰，活在自己世界中的艺术家实在太少了。能够和他交流，对我们这些业余爱好者来说，是个难得的机会。希望大家都不要错过。

一个很有意思的人，能坚持的人都很有理想。

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如果我还可以表达...

Jim對carbon print(以下是Wikipedia對carbon print的解釋)有特別的愛好,他將帶來新的作品及11x17的大幅相機。

Carbon print
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A carbon print is a photographic print with an image consisting of pigmented gelatin, rather than of silver or other metallic particles suspended in a uniform layer of gelatin, as in typical black-and-white prints, or of chromogenic dyes, as in typical photographic color prints.
In the original version of the printing process, carbon tissue {a temporary support sheet coated with a layer of gelatin mixed with a pigment—originally carbon black, from which the name derives) is bathed in a potassium dichromate sensitizing solution, dried, then exposed to strong ultraviolet light through a photographic negative, hardening the gelatin in proportion to the amount of light reaching it. The tissue is then developed by treatment with warm water, which dissolves the unhardened gelatin. The resulting pigment image is physically transferred to a final support surface, either directly or indirectly. In an important early 20th century variation of the process, contact with a conventional silver bromide paper print, rather than exposure to light, was used to selectively harden the gelatin. A wide variety of colored pigments can be used instead of carbon black.
The process can produce images of very high quality which are exceptionally resistant to fading and other deterioration. It was developed in the mid-19th century in response to concerns about the fading of early types of silver-based black-and-white prints, which was already becoming apparent within a relatively few years of their introduction.

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敬佩！

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配乐强...

而且这次片头更威武了，有点新闻联播的意思了...